Wednesday, November 01, 2006

No major spoilers, but "30 Rock" gets a big thumbs-up just for that line, and for the rehearsal snippet of Jack's "Meep! Meep!" sketch. Last week's episode was more consistently funny, but this is turning out to be a good little comedy. Loved the Sorkin pedeconference parody.

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I concur. The show's really finding its stride and rhythm, and while it's going to get TOASTED in the ratings once it moves to Thursdays, NBC really does have four solid, funny, comedies in the Thursday lineup for the first time since 1993-94 (Mad About You, Wings, Seinfeld, Frasier)

I've always had a thing for Tina Fey. She's sort of unique in American comedy. Not a great comic actress like Andrea Martin or Tracey Ullman, not a magical charmer like Gilda Radner or Amy Poehler, but with a pinpoint sensibility... real sharp, real funny, and sexy because of that.

Not being a big Tina Fey fan, I wasn't looking forward to this and didn't plan to watch it. Happened to catch the first couple of episodes and liked it. Now it's one of the few shows I look forward to watching. Since souring on "Studio 60" and having just read if sorkin wrote about baseball, the "good walk and talk" had me on the floor.

West Wing did the "pedeconference parody" on itself long, long ago, Mac. You remember right. Just like every other joke on 30 Rock that isn't delivered by Alec Baldwin, it felt old. And not in the easy target Ann Coulter way.